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seen done. As opportunity offered, he did carpentry, shoemaking, garden- 

 ing, painting, and livery stable work. One of his specialties was cleaning 

 out wells. In September, 1848, while the late well-known agricultural pub- 

 lisher, Orange Judd, tramped the road between Warsaw and LeRoy repair- 

 ing clocks. Ward and his partner went over the same route, cleaning out 

 wells on a very profitable basis. 



After the Academy he went to Williams College . . . where he was a 

 fellow student of Senator Ingalls and Hon. Charles E. Fitch. There, also, 

 he supported himself by hard work in hours filched from periods that should 

 have been devoted to study and recreation. His best friend was Professor 

 Emmons, the geologist, who showed him the path that afterwards led to 

 geology and mineralogy, and started him therein." 



It would be interesting to know why young Ward went to Wil- 

 liams instead of studying at his home college, which had opened 

 in 1850, a year before he entered Williams. It 'is believed that 

 his interest in earth science was awakened by Professor Chester 

 Dewey ; and it may be that he went to Williams on account of 

 Professor Emmons. 



"In speaking of that period of his life. Professor Ward admits that he 

 was a bad student in all his studies except geology, mineralogy and the lan- 

 guages, in which he always stood high. . . . 



In 1853 Professor Louis Agassiz came to Pittsfield, Mass., 28 miles from 

 Williamstown, to deliver a lecture. The college boys hired a band wagon 

 and drove over. The fare was seventy-five cents, and being without money, 

 young Ward walked the 28 miles to the lecture. . . . 



After the lecture Ward was introduced to Professor Agassiz, and invited 

 to visit him at his hotel. The direct result of the fifty-six mile walk to hear 

 one lecture was that the walker went at once to Cambridge, and became a 

 pupil of the great Swiss naturalist. . . . 



At Cambridge young Ward and 'Charlie' Wadsworth became such fast 

 friends that General Wadsworth took the two boys to Paris with him, gave 

 Ward a year's course of special instruction in the School of Mines, and to 

 crown all, afterward gave the lucky boys a glorious trip to Egypt, up the 

 Nile to the third cataract, winding up with Suez. Thus began the long 

 series of delightful journeys over the face of the earth so dear to the heart 

 of Henry A. Ward, from which he will never rest permanently so long as 

 he can climb the steps of a car, or cross a gangplank without falling off. 



After the close of the great Egyptian picnic young Ward resumed his 

 studies in Paris. The only regular feature about his course was running 

 out of money. He would study in the School of Mines until almost penni- 

 less, when he would drop his books and hasten to the gypsum and chalk 

 quarries of Montmarte and Meudon. There he would gather a good load 

 of minerals and fossils, pack them in his trunk, cross the channel to Lon- 



